Paying attention to the details of design critique.

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Both Adam and I have been presenting the content we post on Discussing Design as a team and as individuals at conferences and for design teams over the last few years, as we continue to share the content in presentations and workshops we want to hear from you about your experience (good or bad) with […]

Why is it that we created a whole blog dedicated to the topic of critique? People ask us this all the time. I’m not kidding when I say that at least 2 people audibly laughed at me when I told them the idea. On the surface critique seems like a pretty straight forward thing. But […]

The new year is in full swing and dates for workshops and presentations are coming together nicely. if you want to learn more about communicating design effectively with your teams and stakeholders be sure to check out these upcoming events. If you are at one of these events and dont make it out to one […]

As we’ve mentioned before, we’ll be giving a talk and full-day workshop at UIE’s UI17 Conference this November 5th-7th. We’re super-stoked and honored to be a part of such an amazing lineup and we hope to see you there. Not only that, but Aaron’s birthday is on the 6th and mine is the following week […]

Recently Adam and I had the chance to talk with Jared Spool on the UIE Brain Sparks podcast about our upcoming presentation and workshop at UI17. As always Jared was an awesome host and we consider ourselves very fortunate to have the chance to talk about our favorite topic on the podcast. So head on over and give it a listen. […]

A Bit About This Site

Getting feedback from clients, teammates, stakeholders and others on a design can be terrifying and excruciating. Most of us have had the experience of seeing our designs berated and torn apart, or sitting through painful meetings listening to people react to our designs only to leave with nothing of use in making decisions on what should be kept and or iterated upon.

The goal of this site is to provide insights and resources for improving the conversations we have around design... (continue reading)